Import from Ext. drive results in wrong file path

I just bought and installed Photoshop Elements 8.
Importing my pictures from internal drives occurs without any problems.
However, when I import files from an external drive (E), the thumbnails appear but their path shows up as being on external drive (F).  At the same  time, a representation of the folders I imported from appears on the folder tree of drive F, but with grey instead of yellow folders.
When I click on one of the thumbails, the program starts searching for a 'missing file.'
No other software I own works like this. Both drives are in good working order -- online and not sleeping, and are freely accessible by other programs and file managers.
Is this wrong parh issue a common problem?  Can it be fixed?

Hi, I have the same problem of grayed folders. I did manually change the folders in Explorer and now have this problem of trying to reconnect the files with the image and have over 2000 files missing. Now I am getting the message to "reconnect or delete from catalog". Is there a way to reconnect with out searching for each and every file? Is it possible to remove these folders and "re-do" my import? Please help.
I ran your utility and below are my findings:
psedbtool version 1.08
Opening catalog C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\My Catalog\catalog.pse8db
Photoshop Elements version:      8
Total files               :   6629
Total files missing       :   2171
Total files offline       :      0
Total files wrong volume  :      0
****** Volumes with warnings: 1
PSE Volume Table
Path used by PSE        :
Type                    : no_drive
Status                  :
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             :
Serial                  : no drive
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 982
Path used by PSE        : H:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 1552
Total files missing     : 1552
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : H:
Serial                  : 3EEA-E2AB
Drive_path_if_builtin   : H:
Id                      : 308
***** WARNING *****     : Drive in catalog missing
Path used by PSE        : C:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 5077
Total files missing     : 619
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : C:
Serial                  : 6A98-6A83
Drive_path_if_builtin   : C:
Id                      : 173
Path used by PSE        : C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\My Catalog
Type                    : database_relative_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : database relative
Serial                  : amoc:database_relative_volume
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 2
Windows Drives
Drive  Type             Serial     Path
A:     removable_drive  0000-0000 
C:     builtin_drive    6A98-6A83 
D:     readonly_drive   0188-7EC4 
E:     builtin_drive    4890-C5F3 
F:     builtin_drive    FCD3-1C6C

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